In sociology and anthropology , an action group or task group is a group of people joined temporarily to accomplish some task or take part in some organized collective action .
12-464: (Redirected from Action Group ) Action Group may refer to: Action group (sociology) , or task group, a group of people joined temporarily to accomplish some task or take part in some organized collective action Action Group (Nigeria) , a Nigerian political party established in Ibadan on March 21, 1951, by Chief Obafemi Awolowo Action (group theory) ,
24-510: A proponent of revolutionary socialism and participated in the radical government installed after the overthrow of the autocratic right wing Cuban President Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933. In 1931, Guiteras established the Unión Revolucionaria . Guiteras's political beliefs were nurtured in the volatile political climate of the 1920s. He first became widely known as a student leader and associate of Julio Antonio Mella ,
36-524: A way of describing symmetries of objects using groups Action Group (conglomerate) , a business conglomerate based in India founded by Lala Mange Ram Agarwal Action Group (Malaysia) , a business automotive aftermarket business founded in 1980 in Malaysia. Another name for a task group or military task force See also [ edit ] Group action (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
48-509: A young Communist revolutionary. He believed that the liberation of the people would be achieved through violent confrontation with the established authorities; he did not hold firm to the ideal of democracy. Antonio Guiteras was named Minister of the Interior under President Dr. Ramón Grau San Martín . Many reforms were introduced, including a minimum wage, minimum labour regulations, academic freedom, and nationalisation of important sectors of
60-488: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Action group (sociology) As the members of the action group are brought together on a single occasion and then disband, they cannot be regarded as constituting a full-fledged social group , for which they would need to interact recurrently in accordance with their social identities . Action Groups are often formed by many shareholders when they disagree with actions by
72-853: The Board of Directors of a Public Company or the Government like the forced Nationalisation of Northern Rock , Railtrack with 49,000 members. Action groups are co-ordinated by private investors in shareholder associations or their legal representatives in court. Institutional investors often find loose alliances with private investor lead shareholder association actions groups useful in applying mass political pressure or to publicly embarrass Directors at Annual general meetings into making changes. The largest established shareholder action group associations are Sveriges Aktiesparares Riksförbund (the Swedish Shareholders' Association) part of
84-624: The Mexican and the Russian revolutions, the struggle in Ireland and Sandino 's guerrilla movement in Nicaragua . He shared the anti-imperialist politics of the age and, drawing on anarchist roots, advocated rural and urban armed struggle, assaults on army barracks and the assassination of policemen and members of the government. He was a firm believer in direct action , the propaganda of
96-816: The Euroshareholders group in the UK ShareSoc and UKSA (UK Shareholder Association),. American Shareholders Association, Australian Shareholders Association , and Japan Sōkaiya also have action groups. In Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America, the word "action group" ( grupo de acción ) was given to violent activists who gathered together to perform violent guerrilla activities e.g. (see Antonio Guiteras , Fidel Castro , Emilio Tro , Lauro Blanco , and Rolando Masferrer when young university students) [1] [2] . Commonly regarded as gang-related killing there were said to have been 200 of these killings in
108-563: The Grau administration alone. (Martin, Lionel. The Early Fidel: Roots of Castro's Communism . 1978. Lyle Stuart, Secaucus New Jersey; 1st ed, p. 25). ISBN 0-8184-0254-7 . Antonio Guiteras Antonio Guiteras y Holmes (22 November 1906 – 8 May 1935) was a leading politician in Cuba during the 1930s. He was born 22 November 1906 in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania , USA. He was
120-712: The deed , derived from Blanqui and the Spanish anarchists, and was much criticised by the Communists for his voluntarism and his predilection for violence. He died in Matanzas , Cuba : Guiteras and several of his conspirators died in a gun battle with Batista’s army on May 8, 1935, at the abandoned Spanish Fort Morrillo in the Valley of Matanzas. Guiteras was waiting there for a boat that was to take him and his companions across to México, where he hoped to continue his work for
132-484: The economy. After the " government of 100 days ", Guiteras became even more radical and founded Joven Cuba , a proletarian political organisation inspired by anti-capitalism and the nationalism of José Martí . In his account Cuba: A New History , the leftist historian Richard Gott summarizes Guiteras's beliefs and methods: Guiteras's views reflected an eclectic mix of revolutionary influences, from Auguste Blanqui to Jean Jacques Jaurès . He drew inspiration from
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